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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

Martial

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIAL

Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
MARTIAL

Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL

Solution Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIAL

Original Position Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Existence Health Life
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
MARTIAL

Borrow Himself Lose Preference
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIAL

Excellence Praise Verse Yourself

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

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